Kenneth Posey, who spent more than 50 years in hospital administration and was described as a “dedicated advocate” for rural healthcare, died July 23. He was 89. Mr. Posey spent 36 years as CEO of Jasper General Hospital in Bay…

Iris Taylor, PhD, RN, a longtime Detroit healthcare executive who served as president and CEO of Detroit Receiving Hospital and held senior roles across the Detroit Medical Center system, died July 30 at age 74, Chalkbeat Detroit reported. Dr. Taylor…

As president and CEO of Children’s National in Washington, D.C., Michelle Riley-Brown has a front-row seat to the federal policy decisions reshaping healthcare. She said those decisions have also made advocacy a larger part of her role, with her spending…

Operating room inefficiency is easy to miss. It rarely looks like an empty schedule — instead, it hides in unused blocks, late releases and reactive processes that leave capacity and revenue untapped even as surgical demand climbs. For many health…

As HHS hosts payers and medical associations in Washington, D.C., it will introduce a pledge July 29 to advance mental health and addiction care nationwide. Optum CEO Patrick Conway, MD, told Becker’s on July 27 that his company will be…

Few health systems have developed as many executive leaders as Cleveland Clinic. The answer to why, according to one of its most senior physician-executives, is less about culture than about a set of specific institutional practices that begin early in…

Leadership turnover has become one of the few constants in healthcare, as executives change roles amid consolidation, retirements and mounting operational pressure. The risk isn’t only the vacancy itself but what can leave with it — institutional knowledge, hard-won relationships…

AdventHealth structures its leadership development around a three-part framework: lead self, lead others, lead results. AdventHealth’s Audrey Gregory said the order isn’t incidental — it’s the whole argument. Most health systems build development programs aimed at the third stage and…

David Cole, MD, became president of the Medical University of South Carolina in 2014, when the Charleston-based institution operated as a single-campus academic health system. Over the next 12 years, he led its expansion into an 18-hospital statewide network delivering…

The number of children in the U.S. is declining, and the drop is sharpest in the country’s largest cities, The Wall Street Journal reported July 26. Where does that leave hospitals and health systems? The number of children under 18…